from 1952-1954
. I had known him before that time, however, and, of course, after I left Lawrence in the Spring of 1954. When we could not meet, we corresponded. For some time now I have been reading as much as possible of that correspondence lasting for almost 35 years trying to recover a sense of Herbert Spiegelberg that I can put into words at the present time. I am not certain that I can; but I would like to try.
Herbert Spiegelberg has re-emerged for me as a very shy, very private, profoundly kind person, yet intensely social in his philosophizing. It is this sociality that I would like to talk about for a few minutes because it seems to me to have been intrinsic to his philosophy. My remarks about it will be confined, with one exception, to several years at Lawrence, To help the recollections along, I shall introduce several photos. This is an early "plan" of the historical study of the "phenomenological movement." It dates from around early 1953, and I still vividly recall the occasion: Spiegelberg had rounded up some of what then passed as philosophy majors and took us to a comer table overlooking the Fox River in the Student Union. The memory is vivid: Spiegelberg had to tell someone about itl
The diagram is a chronology of the Phenomenological Movement, to be sure, but also showing various lines of influence (the Rickert/Lask was added in answer to a question I asked). Besides the excitement of the occasion, and the realization that, for the fhst time, I was on the verge of what would be for me a long philosophical adventure, the diagram still reconstitutes for me my first introduction to the phenomenological method,